SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS: parliamentary elections National Assembly, 2000

SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS
Parliamentary Chamber: National Assembly

ELECTIONS HELD IN 2000

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Chamber:

National Assembly

Dates of elections / renewal (from/to):

6 March 2000

Purpose of elections:

Elections were held for the 11 popularly-chosen members of the National Assembly following the premature dissolution of this body. General elections had previously been held in July 1995.

Background and outcome of elections:

The St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), headed by Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, won the general election held on 6 March 2000, securing a second consecutive five-year term of office.
The electoral campaign was marked by the deportation, on 19 February, of Charles Miller, an alleged drug trafficker, to Miami, who for four years defied US attempts to extradite him. This extradition was a boom for Denzil Douglas, who has vaunted his government's will to fight crime.
In St. Kitts, eight seats of the 11at stake in the 14-member National Assembly went to the Labour Party. The People's Action Movement, led by Mr. Kennedy Simmonds, which governed the country from 1980 to 1995, lost the only seat that it held in the last legislature and is not represented in the new National Assembly. In Nevis, the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) won two seats and the Nevis Reformation Party kept the third one.

STATISTICS

Round no 1 (6 March 2000): Elections results

Number of registered electors 34 163

Voters 21 949 (64 %)

Round no 1: Distribution of seats

Political Group Total

Labour Party (SKNLP) 8

Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM) 2

Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) 1

3 appointed + 1 ex officio 4

Distribution of seats according to sex:

Men: 13

Women: 2

Percent of women: 13.33

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Chamber:
	National Assembly
Dates of elections / renewal (from/to):
	6 March 2000
Purpose of elections:
	Elections were held for the 11 popularly-chosen members of the National Assembly following the premature dissolution of this body. General elections had previously been held in July 1995.
Background and outcome of elections:
	The St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP), headed by Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas, won the general election held on 6 March 2000, securing a second consecutive five-year term of office. The electoral campaign was marked by the deportation, on 19 February, of Charles Miller, an alleged drug trafficker, to Miami, who for four years defied US attempts to extradite him. This extradition was a boom for Denzil Douglas, who has vaunted his government's will to fight crime. In St. Kitts, eight seats of the 11at stake in the 14-member National Assembly went to the Labour Party. The People's Action Movement, led by Mr. Kennedy Simmonds, which governed the country from 1980 to 1995, lost the only seat that it held in the last legislature and is not represented in the new National Assembly. In Nevis, the Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) won two seats and the Nevis Reformation Party kept the third one.

Round no 1 (6 March 2000): Elections results
Number of registered electors	34 163
Voters	21 949 (64 %)

Round no 1: Distribution of seats
Political Group	Total
Labour Party (SKNLP)	8
Concerned Citizens' Movement (CCM)	2
Nevis Reformation Party (NRP)	1
3 appointed + 1 ex officio	4

Distribution of seats according to sex:
Men:	13
Women:	2
Percent of women:	13.33